After taking its sweet time last year, summer has struck back with a vengeance. At least here in the midwest, 90+ degree temperatures and clear, sunny skies are quickly becoming the norm. Of course, with the changing of the seasons not only comes trips to the beach and increased slushie sales but exuberant, feel-good summer jams. As is our tradition here at Music For Ants, we're providing a mix that will hopefully soundtrack some of your 2012 summer memories. Download below or take a listen at Spotify . Enjoy! MP3 Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built [...]
Niki & The Dove , a Swedish three-piece, have put together a fantastic debut album with "Instinct" . Held together with aggressive, expansive bass synth and spare, driving drum rhythms, lead singer Malin Dahlström's voice lends the whole affair a chamberpop sound not unlike Florence & The Machine , though if Florence had been rendered into a pixelated sprite by someone like Robyn or The Knife . (My new synthpop band is The And The; the naming scheme is just that [...]
Lilja Birgisdottir Advance album streams are pretty par for the course these days, but if anyone can make it a special occasion, it's Sigur Rós . And they're certainly trying to. Though their new record and first in four years Valtari isn't out until May 29, the band will be offering an advance stream of the record on May 17 - that's today, people - but for only one hour. Dubbed " Valtari Hour" , it will roll across the globe at 7PM local time for [...]
And so concludes The Great Escape Festival , which always turns into the biggest weekend of our calendar year. It's been four days since the event finished, yet our hangovers have barely receded. On one of the nights we finally reached our bed at 8am! A marathon indeed. Below is our review of a handful of experiences and exploits, but in truth it's pretty impossible to extol the real experience in words. Sure we had an amazing time, with lots of live music and venue hopping, but as a Brighton resident every other week of the year, we noticed [...]
Melt! Festival has sold out in record time this year, more than 2 months before the festival is set to take place in Ferropolis - The City of Iron. 20,000 tickets sold in advance - big... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
DOWNLOAD : Niki & the Dove - The Fox (MP3) Swedish duo Niki & the Dove will release their debut album, Instinct , on Sub Pop on August 7. That's the airbrush-overload cover art above. (You can get it via iTunes on June 12.) Before that they'll be in Brooklyn for the Northside Festival , playing the Popgun party at Glasslands on June 14 with openers Selebrities. A limited number of Northside badges will be admitted, but advance tickets [...]
SWEDEN STAYS KILLING IT. Legitimately might just make this a site strictly devoted to Scandanavian jams. That's all I'm posting these days anyways. A buddy of mine dropped some knowledge on me a few hours ago and let me know that Sweden's government subsidizes it's music industry. Hence, gems continuously come out of Sweden. On a serious note though: Niki & The Dove are incredible. They're entirely unique and unlike anything else really out there at the moment, yet the listenability is still there. The opening track "Tomorrow" is undeniable pop bliss, but the album takes a bunch of different [...]
Frank Yang If you're thinking, "hey - didn't you just see M83 a few months ago? Why are you going to see them again so soon?", then a) you spend far too much time keeping track of my concert schedule, and b) you would have a valid point. Usually I would have happily given Sunday night's show a pass, as much as I look for any excuse to go to the Sound Academy, particularly with the band already planning a third local show in nine months when they play the Hard Festival at [...]
We've been waiting for this one for a while now. Stream Niki & The Dove's full length debut Instinct in its entirety before it's release (May 14 in the UK, August 7 in America). Continue reading: Full Stream: Niki & The Dove - Instinct Read more articles like " Full Stream: Niki & The Dove - Instinct " on Pretty Much Amazing . Tags: Niki & The Dove
Listen to Niki And The Dove 's debut album "Instinct" below. Over the last few months Swedish pop duo Niki And The Dove have been quite prolific in their output, not just with music from their debut album, but also their EP and an upcoming mixtape too. Just in the last month we've heard, and seen, "Tomorrow" , the track "Hot Summer" from their upcoming "Mixtape 13 , as well as "All [...]
Yes, yes, yes. Swedish duo Niki & The Dove , who gave us the excellent " DJ, Ease My Mind ," have put their whole album up for streaming, a week before it is officially released. Their powerful brand of pop has so far been excellently received, and this album shows that the high praise was well placed - it has a great balance of bombastic choruses and quieter, more intimate moments, and the production is excellent throughout. Head over to NME to stream Instinct in full. Big up Sweden, big up nuanced, powerful pop music. [...]
This sparkling debut from the future pop duo proves a prolific string of EP releases doesn't always lead to a disappointing full-length.
Wenn ihr dieses Jahr nur ein Electro-Synthie-Album kaufen möchtet, dann kauft euch "Instinct". In einer Woche erscheint das Debüt-Album von Niki & The Dove. Die Vorfreude auf "Instinct" kann kaum grösser sein angesichts der bereits bekannten Songs. Um die Wartezeit noch etwas zu verkürzen, hat das Schweden-Duo ein Mixtape auf Soundcloud gestellt. Im Mixtape ebenfalls enthalten ist das Outtake "Hot Summer", zu dem auch noch eigens ein Videoclip geschustert wurde. > "Instinct" erscheint am 14. Mai auf Sub Pop. [...]
If ever there was a music festival designed for a music blog like ours it would be this one...OK, so perhaps SXSW too, but this one is literally outside our house. Absolutely zero connecting flights to Austin required then, as we only need to step outside of our door and we're surrounded by 300 artists and what seems like the entire British music industry, as we all set out to enjoy the annual Great Escape Festival . As you would expect, this means we are going to be very busy little bloggers over the weekend of the [...]
It took my a while to come around Niki & The Dove, but here I am. Following up the 2011 EP "The Drummer", it is hard not to deny there is something behind the hype of their upcoming record "Instinct" (out May 14). "Tomorrow" is huge, and I cannot wait to hear more. [...]
Niki & The Dove share "Taylor 2009" and "All This Youth" in the lead-up to their debut album reelase
Steve Double Whenever an old/classic album is reissued these days - which is pretty much every day - it's inevitably advertised as having been remastered, and it's assumed that that's a good thing. And not unreasonably - when a lot of these albums were originally released on compact disc, they were poorly converted from analog to digital and could generally sound thin/quiet/uninspiring. But remastering is no guarantee of improvement - at best, things will sound incredibly better (the 20th anniversary redo of The Stone Roses' debut by original producer John Leckie is a revelation), [...]
Listen to two new Niki & The Dove songs, "All This Youth" and "Taylor" , to be included in the Deluxe Edition of their full-length debut, "Instinct" , out May 14. Swedish duo Niki & The Dove are gearing up for the release of "Instinct" , their much-anticipated debut album, which is out May 14 via Sub Pop / Mercury Records . While we've already heard "Tomorrow" , the lead single form the album, we're now [...]
The release of these Swedish pop-experimentalists debut album draws ever closer, and Niki & The Dove are not slowing down with their releases. First up, we have "Taylor" a gentle love song that is as beautiful as it is bittersweet, laying Malin's plaintive refrain of "Taylor, why did you leave me? Oh Taylor, I wish you'd call sometime" over a pulsating, shimmering backdrop. "Taylor" will be a bonus track on the deluxe version of Instinct (out 14th May), begging the question, how bloody good must the rest of the album be if this only made it as [...]
Sub Pop's new Swedish duo Niki & The Dove are releasing their full length debut Instinct on May 14th in the UK (unfortunately there isn't a US release date on the horizon), and while we've heard several tracks from the album (including the album's incredible lead single "Tomorrow" ), they aren't done promoting the album. Yesterday, popular UK publications NME and The Guardian both premiered bonus cuts from the album's deluxe edition––and yes, they're really, really good, but what did you expect? Listen to "All This Youth" and "Taylor" [...]
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